How do judges of the Supreme Court of South Carolina reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Supreme Court of South Carolina / Joined 1791 / Served to 1824

Elihu H. Bay

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

Elihu H. Bay was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1791. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1791–1824 · 33 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1791	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bay authored 58 published opinions for the court (1800–1823), plus 1 dissent and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Helfrid (1 citation).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 63 of these were attributed to Bay by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1820	State v. Helfrid· Concurrence†	2 Nott & McC. 233	1
1819	Cook v. Gourdin†	2 Nott & McC. 19	1
1817	Jenkins v. Jenkins†	8 S.C.L. 48	1
1810	Herbemont v. Bostick†	4 S.C.L. 435	1
1823	State v. Taylor†	13 S.C.L. 483	0
1822	State ex rel. Martindale of the Charleston Neck Rangers v. Stevens†	13 S.C.L. 32	0
1822	Youngblood v. Lowry†	13 S.C.L. 39	0
1822	Tolman v. Thompson†	13 S.C.L. 43	0
1822	Clarke v. State†	13 S.C.L. 47	0
1822	Porteous v. Givens†	13 S.C.L. 48	0
1822	State v. Marshall†	13 S.C.L. 63	0
1822	Prescott v. Hubbell†	13 S.C.L. 64	0
1822	Carr v. Jeannerett†	13 S.C.L. 66	0
1821	Lining v. City Council†	12 S.C.L. 345	0
1821	State v. Collins†	12 S.C.L. 355	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 63 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of South Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is legislative election.
Which court was Elihu H. Bay on?: Elihu H. Bay was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Sources

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33 years on the Supreme Court of South Carolina. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).